Century-Old Athens Bulletin Notes Local Affairs and National Events
Subscribers are urged to report late deliveries and irregular carrier service. SPECIAL NOTICE warns carriers cannot collect subscriptions or sell papers. editorials mock headlines and discuss elections, liquor bills, divorce cases, and rising prices. Athens Chamber of Commerce seeks greater membership and university status with Oglethorpe and Emory. Belgium support appeal and Belgian cash seizure reported. Agriculture commissioner race results shown. The piece comments on paper shortages and school funding, lauds Capt. Charlie Irvin amid Ku Klux Klan ties, and hints at ongoing agricultural races.
Progress of War Inventions and the Tank Innovation
The article notes that wartime necessity drives invention from gas helmets to armor cars and tanks. It highlights the British tank's impact on trenches, German fear, and US action via Secretary Daniels forming a board of American inventors led by Edison. It argues new weapons shape war outcomes and national defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Daniels
United States Cabinet
Board of American Inventors
Navy Department
Edison
War and Prohibition in Europe Stir Public Temperance
The article argues that Romania's wartime ban on alcohol reflects a broader lesson of war improving military efficiency. It cites sober discipline boosting crop production munitions work and combat effectiveness while noting bans could persist postwar for financial and temperance benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Romania
Europe
He Made An Impression On A Human Heart Immortal
A compactType cartoon line compares impressions left by a man on sand wax wood steel and ends with the lasting impression on a human heart Immortal. The anonymous verse notes water wax Circumstance Fire Rust and eternity in a concise satirical pay attention piece.
New York and Liverpool Cotton Markets Rally Amid Strong Buying
The Associated Press reports firmer New York cotton early ahead of Liverpool futures, with Decem ber and January advancing from midday lows as buyers, including old sellers reentering the market, push prices higher. Liverpool cables turn higher with spot activity and mixed declines in later trading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Liverpool
New Orleans
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Athens
Basis
Atlanta
Quiet
Augusta
Norfolk
Houston
Memphis
Philadelphia
Dallas
Boston
Mobile
Savannah
Charleston
Wilmington
Little Rock
Galveston
Robertson
Georgia
Wall Street
Robertson & CO
Backache Relief Ad Promises Kidney Pills
An old advertisement urges readers to treat back pain with Rolex Miosy Pills and Foleyee Pils for kidney-related discomfort. It claims quick relief, restored youthfulness, and removal of causes of pain in middle and elderly adults.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. R. Palmer
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Athens Baer
H. J. Rowe
Athena
Athens Daily Banner
Florida
Chamber of Commerce of
Vancouver
Oglethorpe
Emory
Chamber of Commerce
City
Georgia Center
America
Commissioner of Agriculture
Brown
Price
Charlie Irvin
Washington
South
Ku Klux Klan
Gen
Toombs
Agri
D. G. Bickers
Athens Empire Laundry
Sehae
Declan
Chicago
Vpoem
the McGregor Company
Fletcher
Castoria aAlways
Georgia National Bank
John J. Wilkins
Madison G. Nicholson
V. P
W. P. Brooks
Cashler
J. Warren Smith
V. P. Eston Eppes
Woodruff
North Georgia Fair Winder, Ga
Winder, Ga
Whitehall Road
J. R. Crane
R. S. Crane
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